Weekly Freebies: Shabbos Goy

The circumstances under which you may ask (or hint to) a gentile to perform for you a forbidden labor on Shabbos are complex and often misunderstood. R. Yitzchak Zilberstein’s massive work on the subject, Melakhim Omanayikh, is available for free download at HebrewBooks: link.

From a recent audioroundup: •Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz -Ten Minute Halacha – Work Exercise and Travel Before Davening R’Lebowitz does a yeoman’s job trying to provide a theoretical underpinning to define which activities are permitted or prohibited prior to morning prayer. It does seem, however, that CLOR is the only simple rule to follow (arghhhh – multiple undefined generating functions at work again!).